There May Be a Racial Gap in Access to Heart-Healthy Statins.

Millions of Americans take statins, which lower cholesterol levels, but a new study indicates that Black and Hispanic adults are less likely to receive the medications compared to white people. According to Dr. Ambarish Pandey, an assistant professor of internal medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and the study's primary author, "this adds to the known racial and ethnic disparities already highly prevalent in heart di....